Friday Highlights 10/3: Global Arms Control, Treaty Momentum, and U.S. Fuel Innovation

by Oppenheimer Team | Oct 3, 2025 | Updates

Jon Wolfsthal: Why President Trump should put off the new nuclear arms race for one more year In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, former national security official and nuclear weapons policy expert Jon Wolfsthal urges the Trump administration to agree to Russian...

Friday Highlights 9/26: Global Leaders Recalibrate on Nuclear Futures

by Oppenheimer Team | Sep 26, 2025 | Updates

Putin offers Trump one-year extension to nuclear weapons treaty On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to voluntarily maintain the New START limits of deployed strategic nuclear warheads at 1,550 for an additional year if President Trump agrees to do the...

Friday Highlights 9/19: Nuclear Diplomacy, Energy Deals, and Global Growth

by Oppenheimer Team | Sep 19, 2025 | Updates

How Trump Could Ensure His Legacy as a Peacemaker In their new commentary for Project Syndicate, David Gross, Daniel Holz, Juan Manuel Santos, and Brian Schmidt propose several steps President Donald Trump can take to lower the threat of nuclear war. Such steps...

Friday Highlights 9/5: Calls for a Nuclear Freeze, Investor Momentum, and Reactor Milestones

by Oppenheimer Team | Sep 5, 2025 | Updates

“A House of Dynamite”: ‘Riveting’ US nuclear attack thriller is ‘more terrifying than most horror films’ Director Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, premiered to a nearly 13-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival this...

Friday Highlights 8/29: Plutonium Recycling, Trump–Kim Diplomacy, and China’s Nuclear Push

by Oppenheimer Team | Aug 29, 2025 | Updates

American nuclear officials endorse using plutonium from dismantled warheads Nuclear industry officials have tentatively supported a forthcoming Trump administration plan to make Cold War-era warhead plutonium available to power companies for reactor fuel. This...